Description In four elegant chapters, Robert Alter explains the prismlike radiance created by the association of three modern masters, Franz Kafka, WAlter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem.
Scholem, the devoted Zionist and master historian of Jewish mysticism, and Benjamin, the Marxist cultural critic.
The volume pinpoints the intersections of these divergent witnesses to the modern condition of doubt, the no-man\'s-land between traditional religion and modern secular culture.
Description In four elegant chapters, Robert Alter explains the prismlike radiance created by the association of three modern masters, Franz Kafka, WAlter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem